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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What does Douglass compare the way slaves are treated to?
(a) Animals.
(b) Mules.
(c) Children.
(d) Uneducated people.
2. What is one of the contrasting effects of slavery that Douglass suffers, according to Garrison in the Preface (x)?
(a) "No formal education."
(b) "A life not worth living."
(c) "Loses his soul."
(d) "Trembling in fear for his safety."
3. What is the female slave's name that Douglass describes being beaten by the supervisor in Chapter 1?
(a) Ann Jester.
(b) Jan Harris.
(c) Arlene Henry.
(d) Aunt Hester.
4. What did Wendell Phillips do for a living?
(a) He was a publisher.
(b) He was a writer.
(c) He was a soldier.
(d) He was a lawyer.
5. How many slaves were at the main farm?
(a) 300-400.
(b) 30-40.
(c) 100-200.
(d) 10-20.
Short Answer Questions
1. What was a teenage girl in Douglass's own family killed for?
2. When was the second Preface written?
3. What did the slave master who replaced Mr. Hopkins want to do?
4. Garrison refers to Douglas as a man with what, in his Preface (x)?
5. What is the "West Indies Experiment?"
Short Essay Questions
1. How is Garrison's Preface different than other prefaces?
2. In the Preface, why does Mr. Garrison talk about a story that Daniel O'Connell has previously told?
3. What was Colonel Lloyd's garden like?
4. Who was Austin Gore? How is he described?
5. Describe in detail what was given to the slaves by the slaveholder as their rations. When did they receive these rations?
6. What is the irony regarding the slaves wanting to work at the main farm?
7. How were Colonel Lloyd's horses and carriages cared for?
8. Why does Garrison's Preface seem somewhat like a religious sermon?
9. What common practice upsets Douglass, according to his narrative in Chapter 1?
10. What did the white children know that black slaves do not, according to Douglass's narrative in Chapter 1?
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